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Quonset Hut LbNA #14765

Owner:Hez, Grumpy and Mona
Plant date:Apr 30, 2005
Location:
City:Portland
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Found by: ukegrl87
Last found:Mar 8, 2024
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 1, 2015
Easy- Drive by.

Quonset Huts were developed by the Navy in 1941. These light prefab structures were developed to meet the vast problem of moving and housing people and materials.
Modeled after the British structure called the Nissen hut, the Navy improved upon their structure and had a production facility set up near Quonset, Rhode Island.
The basic Quonset hut was a row of semi-circular steel ribs covered with corrugated sheet metal. The ribs sat on a low steel-frame foundation with a plywood floor. The basic
model was 20 feet wide and 48 feet long with 720 square feet of usable floor space.
About 170,000 Quonset huts were produced during the war, and when the war ended they were too good a resource to throw away. The military sold them to civilians for about a
thousand dollars each. They made serviceable single-family homes.
Not only were they made into homes, but they were also used by churches and small businesses. In 1948 the Sacramento Peak observatory was housed in Quonset huts and playwright Robert Finton wrote a play about them called Tents of Tin.
Today you will still see them scattered here and there from North Africa to the Aleutian Islands and even in Portland, CT.

The box is inside the store and the hours that it is accessible are as follows:
Monday - Friday 8-5
Saturday 8-2
Sunday 8-12:30
Closed Mondays April through August
October-December the hours are as follows:
Mon-Fri.-8-5
Saturday 8-4
Sunday 8-12:30
From main street Portland, take Route 66 East. Traveling East, you will be looking for Pickering Street on your right. Pickering Street is just past the car wash and just before Portland Automotive. Take Pickering Street and the Quonset Surplus Store will be on your left.
The box will be behind the counter, just ask Andrea for it. The Quonset has all kinds of neat stuff in it so take a minute and look around. You never know when you might find something you just gotta have!